Chapter 8
Meredith POV
I woke up the next morning with the worst head ache. I tried to remember last night but all I could remember was tequila, lots and lots of tequila. Turning off the alarm I remembered I had to be to work early for rounds. Groaning I sat up and found Mark still asleep. As quietly as I could I climbed out of bed and made my way to the bathroom. I found the pain killers I was looking for and took a couple in hopes they would help with my head ache. I turned on the shower and got ready for work. Half way through the shower I felt a blast of cold air. I looked and saw Mark had stepped in the shower with me.
"How's the hangover?" He asked with a smug smile.
"Fine." I grumbled. Then I looked into his eyes. "Are you angry with me?"
"Why would I be angry with you, my wife?"
"Because I went out last night and got drunk."
Mark shook his head, "I know you had your reasons last night. Due to the fact that probably the whole hospital now knows about us."
"Shit, I keep forgetting about the goddamn hospital gossip mill. Why couldn't Alex just keep his mouth shut?"
"Don't worry about Karev, he is going to be getting me coffee until the end of his residency. And maybe this is for the better we don't have to keep it a secret now."
I nodded, "Yeah but everyone is going to be judging me. No matter how much more I have to defend myself."
Mark looked almost surprised. "What do you mean 'how much more I have to defend myself'?"
"Last night before I left the locker room Alex said some stuff about our marriage and I snapped at him." Meredith said shyly.
"Next time make sure I am there to witness it." Mark chuckled.
As I stood there under the water I looked up and Mark and couldn't resist. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled his head to mine letting our lips meet. The rest of the shower wasn't spent washing.
After getting dressed I grabbed my keys and prepared to go to work.
"Wait, Mer. Since everyone knows about us, why don't we ride to work together?" Mark asked as my hand was on the door handle.
I looked back and smiled, "Yeah, I would like that very much." I lifted by hand off of the handle and waited for Mark to get dressed.
Within minutes we were walking hand in hand from the hotel lobby and got in Mark's car.
"So I looked at our schedules, and noticed we both have Saturday off." I brought up casually during the ride.
Mark looked over quickly and smiled at me. "I know. And what were you thinking?"
"Well I was thinking we could look at houses or apartments. I think it's time to leave the hotel." I looked intently at Mark to see his reaction.
"It's like you were reading my mind." He smiled as he pulled into his parking stall in the hospital parking lot.
I smiled as I got out of the car and let Mark wrap his arm around my shoulders. I stopped and took a deep breath.
"Are you ready?" Mark asked compassionately.
I nodded, "Everyone knows. Let's just get this over with."
I walked with him into the hospital, where all the workers stopped what they were doing and stared at us. They could at least have the decency to try and be subtle. I sighed and waited for the elevator with Mark.
"Oh look it's the happy couple." I heard a different voice say.
I turned to find Derek waiting for the elevator as well. He smiled and continued. "So everyone knows now? Because I heard Nurse Debbie saying how angry she is now because Mark is and I quote, 'off the market.'"
I glared at Derek, "That is not funny." The elevator opened up and we got on waiting for the doors to close.
"Wait hold the elevator!" I hear someone yelling from the elevator so I stuck out my hand and stopped the doors. A tall red head got in and looked at me, "Thank you." Her eyes drifted to the back of the elevator, "Hello Derek."
I glanced back at Derek and Mark who both looked dumbfounded. "Addison, what are you doing here?"
"I see we haven't met," the red head said to me. "I am Addison Shepherd, and you must be the slutty intern who has been sleeping with my husband."
I looked at her with a shocked expression. I opened my mouth to speak when Mark came to my rescue. "Addison this is Meredith, my wife."
It was her turn to look shocked. "You mean the notorious man whore, Mark Sloan, got married?"
"Addison why are you really here?" Derek asked her again.
"I came to get my husband back." She rolled her eyes. "Richard called me in on a case."
I was grateful then when the doors to the elevator opened. I walked with Mark down the hall to give the Shepherds some privacy. After kissing Mark quick I braced myself and walked into the intern locker room.
I could tell they all were trying to pretend they weren't interested in my life. I rolled my eyes and got changed.
Bailey entered the locker room and finally some eyes fell off me. "Okay people I have your assignments. Karev, Dr. Shepherd; O'Malley, Pit; Yang, Burke; Stevens, Shepherd-"
"Wait Dr. Bailey, you said Alex is with Dr. Shepherd. Are we both with Dr. Shepherd?" Izzie interrupted Bailey.
"If you would have let me finish, you would have the answer to that question. Stevens you are with the female Dr. Shepherd. And Grey, you have been requested by Sloan. I don't care what happens in your personal life; but the next time Sloan requests you, I am going to make sure you don't see the inside of an OR for a month."
I saw the slight grin on Alex as Bailey yelled at me. I walked out of the room not looking at anyone.
I ran into Mark at the OR board. Immediately I reached up and smacked him on the head.
"What was that for?" He asked rubbing his head.
"You ask for me to be on your service the day after the entire hospital finds out about our marriage? Seriously!"
Mark shrugged, "Yeah, why not? I didn't want you to feel awkward with any other attending."
"Now Bailey is threatening to not let me into an OR. So I will be going to the pit for today." I turned to leave when Mark grabbed my arm.
"Wait, you don't even want to know what surgery I was going to let you observe." Mark asked with a smile.
I spun around and stared him down. "I am going to the pit. I will see you back at the hotel." I walked away from him and towards the pit.
Walking in, I found George stitching up a patient. He briefly looked up from his work. "Aren't you supposed to be on your husband's service?" He asked.
"We kind of argued about that. So I reassigned myself here." I said grabbing a random chart.
I got my patient and started stitching her arm where she cut herself while cooking.
"So what happened?" George asked as he sat down with a new patient.
"I told him that he shouldn't have requested me. And then he tries to be all McSteamy thinking I will fall into his arms." I said almost disgusted. "I don't really know if our marriage is going work. But who expects a drunken marriage in Vegas to a guy you don't even know to work."
"Mer everyone has problems with their marriage. If you have a marriage and you don't have one fight, something is wrong."
"Thanks George. But I still think I am going to work here today." I said with a smile.
Maybe I was just over reacting. I kept thinking about it throughout my shift. When I got back to the hotel I saw Mark had beat me home. It wasn't unusual since he was an attending and I was just an intern.
I smiled as I saw him sitting on the couch of the suite flipping through the television channels.
I sat down on the couch next to him and he automatically wrapped his arm around my shoulder. I leaned over and kissed his cheek. "I am sorry about to day. I didn't want to give Bailey any reason to single me out. As soon as this is all blown over I would love to work with you."
He looked over and smiled. "After you showed up and started yelling at me, I realized it probably wasn't a good idea to request you."
We sat in silence for a while watching random commercials. I looked up at him. "Mark." He looked down at me. "I love you." I said in hopes that he would return the gesture. When he stayed silent I got nervous. "We have been married three months and we haven't said it to each other and I-"
"Meredith, I love you too."
Hangovers, Addek, and those three little words all in one day!!
Next chapter is apartment hunting!
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